Spain General Election 2023: Live Results – The New York Times

This election will award all 350 seats in the House of Representatives, Spain’s main legislative body. If no single party wins an outright majority in Congress – a likely scenario – the parties will negotiate until they form a governing coalition.

Seats are required for a majority

Big left parties

Big right parties

The vote, initially scheduled for later this year, is the first general election in Spain this late in the summer, raising concerns about turnout. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the PSOE, the mainstream social-democratic party, called snap general elections after a poor result by left-leaning parties in regional and local elections in May.

PSOE is challenged on the right by PP, a mainstream conservative and Christian Democrat party led by Senator Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

Possible coalitions

176 seats are required for the majority

Big right parties

PP + Vox = 0 seats

Big right parties plus smaller parties

PP + Vox + PNV + CC + UPN = 0 seats

Big left parties

PSOE + Sumar = 0 seats

Large left parties plus smaller parties

PSOE + Sumar + PNV + BNG + Bildu + Existe + ERC = 0 seats

Big left parties as well as smaller and purely Catalan parties

PSOE + Sumar + PNV + BNG + Bildu + Existe + ERC + Junts + CUP

= 0 seats

If the PP or PSOE fail to win a majority, the centre-right PP could try to form a coalition with the far-right Vox, led by Santiago Abascal, a member of the House of Representatives. Likewise, the center-left PSOE may seek to form a coalition with Sumar, a coalition of 20 progressive and regional political parties led by Yolanda Díaz, second deputy prime minister and labor minister. Sumar includes Unidas Podemos, a left-wing party that won 35 seats in 2019 and has struggled after its meteoric rise just eight years ago.

Should either of these coalitions fail to secure a majority in parliament, they will need to win the support of smaller regional parties.

In addition to the Congress of Deputies, 208 seats are also allocated in the Senate, a territorial chamber that does not participate in the election of the prime minister.

Results by province

Places where the PSOE came out on top in the local elections in May

Places where the PSOE came out on top in the local elections in May

…where other parties were ahead

…where other parties were ahead

…where PP came out on top

…where PP came out on top